ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES Opening Scene (1971) 

The opening scene was filmed on the same beach location where Taylor had discovered the Statue of Liberty in the final scene of Planet of the Apes.

10 Fun facts; 1- That’s Point Dume in Malibu Ca. It a state park. You can go right there. Cost $5 to park. The rock behind them is an old volcano. 2- On the other side of that rock is where Taylor sees the Liberty statue in the first movie. 3- This is the same beach where Tony finds Jeanie’s bottle in the fist episode of I dream of Jeanie. It’s available on RU-vid. Look it up. 4- Up the hill were homes owned by Johnny Carson, soon David Letterman and now Owen Wilson. 5- about five miles inland from that spot is Malibu Creek State Park. Where MASH and the original Planet of the Apes camps were. 6- The hills around that area can be seen in the opening theme song of “The flying nun”. She flies right over there. 7- a few miles down the coast , behind the big rock, is Paradise Cove where Jim Rockford had his trailer on the beach. 8- The helicopter pilot was an actual pilot. He also had his SAG card as an actor. So in every movie and tv show of that era where they used a helicopter… and that was a LOT… this guy got the part. 9- The military guy inside on the radio, went on to play the SWAT commander on Hill Street Blues among other things. 10-Presumably, the Apes brought the germs which killed off all the dogs and cats and other pets in a few years. Which leads to apes becoming pets… and then slaves.. and then the overthrow of mankind. So them coming back in time, actually causes the downfall of man, and the rise of the planet of the apes.

Excellent movie! That was true cinema

I was just listening to this score today. Gotta love that Jerry Goldsmith 70's funk.

Probably the best of this series of the saga.

Cut it off a few minutes too soon. The Jerry Goldsmith main title music has been living rent-free in my head since I was a child in the early 70s. The visuals coupled with that music is just great cinema.

*this scene is one of the best in all planet of apes saga..*

This is the first POTA movie I saw. Opening is a great one.

Funny how they went 3,000 years back in time to mid-seventies America.

I like the guitar riff at the end.

So lets review, a race of apes who had ZERO knowledge of space travel or rocket science were able to get a spaceship working again, one that had been underwater and no doubt needed refueling among other forms of maintenance. As great as this movie is you gotta admit that's a big stretch.

After seeing the original movie: I sought out and read Xan Fielding's translation of Pierre Boule's original book "Monkey Planet". And was struck by how much had been left out or altered. When I first saw 'Escape' it likewise struck me how much of that original book had been levered into the film but in a reversal of the original roles. Which struck me as an interesting paradox.

Excelent movie.....thanks...

this movie was actually very interesting, somewhat sad to see how they go from hollywood stars to seen as creatures

Assisti a trilogia dos Planeta dos Macacos p/TV nos anos 70. Este foi o ultimo deles. Nao tinha efeitos especiais elaborados, mas, tinha seu charme!

Excelent movie....

Nice

Half track is WWII equipment. Helicopters are civilian Jetrangers

😂😂😂😂LOL....THE LOOK ON THEIR FACES!!!!😂😆😆😆😂😆

Guess the General didn’t know there was something hairy under their helmets.

They never explained how they recovered Icarus (or got it back into Space) since it sank in the original movie......

宇宙船のコマンドモジュールだけで、どうやって爆発する未来の地球から脱出して飛んで来れた？ この映画を最初に見た時からの疑問

I believe that beach is Malibu, CA.

Very funny movie after the first with Charlton Heston 🏆🎬🏆

Truth a phobia

How did they get back when the ship was sunk

Loved all the original Ape films.. Roddy is the only Cornelius/Caesar

Is that Sgt. Bilko in the middle?

Vdd ,os de hj tem mais efeitos visuais e sonoros do que conteúdo e estória!!!

タイムスリップSF映画の傑作でもあります😂🤔🐒

So was Stewart in there the whole time just turning even yellower?

The capsul is confusing, it should be huge. The nose has a escape hatch that Taylor crawled out of. From the windows back it should be as big as a bus.

They wouldn't even be surprised today, they would give them a green card.

How did they go back in time from the future?

The original Icarus was much larger than this ship.

"Take us to your leader" was expected but not delivered, the look on their faces when those helmets came off...The General should have brought a bunch of bananas...

How did they get that ship though

That’s not a half-track, it’s a deck crane!

The originals were so much more better than the cgi 💩 they’ve done.

Where did the apes get spacesuits from? None of the humans that flew those ships wore them, they were all wearing white flight clothes. Also, didn't Taylor's crew have to use suspended animation to make the trip? How do the apes manage without it? How did they fly backwards in time? Taylor's crew used time dilation to reach the future, that only works one way. How did the apes repair and launch a spacecraft when they were so technologically primitive that they were astounded by a paper airplane flying? I'm beginning to think this movie about intelligent, time travelling chimpanzees is not entirely realistic.

That was not Taylors craft, it is too short, it looks more like Virdon and Burkes from the tv series.

Well for one it's not called Icarus the name of the space craft was not mentioned also the space was washed up to shore

The concept is interesting, but these just do not hold up at all.

Is the spaceship smaller than in the original movie?

Not only did they have to get the ship back into space, they had to go back in time… 🤷

How exactly did they repair that spacecraft?

Welcome gentleman to the . . . . . . 🤐

Movie name please

Mama

And they thought they landed near Chicago 🤣

They opened what they thought was a space ship and had soldiers with guns ready to shoot, but were surprised that the occupants weren't from Ohio?

What was their motive for leaving the earth and where did they want to go?

ship is too small

🕊🌱🌹💻🖨

Once helmet came off bullet in head

I must say, am I the only one who much prefers these original P.O.T.A movies to the more recent , overly-C.G.I 'd ones?

they should of just claimed asylum!!!! lol

You cut off the scene too early. 👎

4:01 OMG, one of them is a woman!!!!

Today the soldiers at the end of this clip wouldn't be shocked. They would just say "Oh, it's Diversity".

African space program?

A lot more convincing than Apollo,much better acting, makeup and dialogue😊

This movie is so racist. I can't believe they included a scene where the apes are smoking Newports.

Kind of what is going on today with Joe Biden's America.